Six people have been killed in five years due to being struck by falling stone slabs during storage and handling operations. Such slabs are potentially unstable when stored on edge.
HSE Safety Notice – Handling and storage of large sheet stone slabs
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- The International Safety Awards
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- Firm fined £80,000 over death of nine-year-old boy
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- Blackpool’s highest window cleaner backs national safety campaign
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- Warburtons staff use their loaf when it comes to workplace safety
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- Free seminar – Moving Goods Safely
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- North east forestry workers urged to sign up for safety event
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- HSE Safety Notice – Handling and storage of large sheet stone slabs
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- RR782 – Fire and explosion properties of nanopowders
- Construction open meeting 3 March – agenda
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- Adventure Activities Licensing – new guidance notes
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- Hazardous agents offshore: Human vulnerability in major accident – Updated
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- Summary of responses to HSE consultation paper CD225
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- Speech by HSE Chair – SE Region Stakeholder Forum
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- HSE helps to prevent accidents on Western Isles fish farms
- Safety event for south east farmers to help reduce death and injury
- Two demolition companies fined after man killed by falling steel prop
- HSE Podcast February 2010 – Shattered Lives
- Low noise and vibration event 2 March now fully subscribed
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- Bin man’s death leads to £130,000 fine for company
- Finger amputation at work leads to £10,000 fine
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- Agriculture Committee members interests updated
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- Ionising radiations regulations – Offshore aspects
- HSE guidance to baggage handling industry
- RR780 – Monitoring the slip resistance of emerging workplace footwear
- Revision of the Event Safety Guide
- Agriculture E-bulletin December 2009
- Beware of illegal gas fitters warns HSE
- Local exhaust ventilation – eBulletin
- RR778 – Feasibility of storybuilder software tool for major hazards intelligence
- Buckinghamshire company pleads guilty following death
- Chemicals – European database updated to incorporate new EC Regulation
- Fund raising events by voluntary associations or charities
- Pesticide approvals granted in January 2010
- Construction: tower cranes legislation – Guidance on complying with the Regulations
- Statistics – Latest eBulletin available
- Stockport company fined after worker’s legs set alight
- ‘Keeping Alive – Borders church minister backs safety message for Scotland’s farmers’
- RR777 – A review of workplace transport safety and HSE commissioned work on manual handling and delivery of goods
- Fourth quarter 2009 statement of nuclear incidents at nuclear installations
- Adventure activities licensing – additional guidance
- Fatal injuries in farming forestry and horticulture 2008/09
- Serious incidents involving agency workers
- HSE calls for careful driving in depots
- Prosecution follows worker’s life-changing injuries
- Crane manufacturer fined following near-miss in Sheffield
- Construction Infonet – January 2010
- Consultation on implementing European pesticides legislation
- Stress case studies
- Slips, trips & falls leaves 180 Oxfordshire workers with major injuries
- Administrator – vacancy
- Slips, trips & falls cause 251 major injuries to workers in Surrey
- Slips, trips & falls caused more than 350 major injuries to workers in Sussex
- Shattered Lives – Simple mistakes can shatter lives
- Safety bulletin – health and social care providers
- RR776 – Assessing the effectiveness of the Workplace Transport Route Map
- Promotion of Health and safety in motor vehicle repair
- Reducing the risks of hazardous accumulations of flammable/toxic gases in tanks on FPSO and FSU installations
- Slips, trips & falls caused over 180 major injuries to workers in Berkshire
- Slips, trips & falls caused over 175 major injuries to workers in Buckinghamshire
- Recording prosecutions on the Police National Computer
- RR773 – ‘Feasibility of using urinary biomarkers to identify occupational MSD of the lower limbs’
- Slips, trips & falls cost three North West workers their lives
- Protecting migrant workers
- Whole-body vibration in ports
- HSE welcomes IAEA report
- Outreach Worker, Polish or Russian speaker, Chelmsford, Luton or Norwich
- Updated guidance on managing asbestos risks
- Slips, trips & falls caused 457 major injuries to workers in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
- Slips, trips & falls cost two East of England workers their lives
- Slips, trips & falls caused 1,400 major injuries to workers in the West Midlands
- Joint marine industry inspections mark new partnership
- Southport farm safety event follows death and injuries
- Unregistered gas fitter fined after 700 lives put at risk
- Fourth GDA Quarterly Report for 2009 published
- Slips, trips & falls cause 453 major injuries to workers in Kent
- Slips, trips & falls cost three London workers their lives
- Mental health charity fined after death of support worker
- Preston farm safety event follows deaths and injuries
- Thermoplastic tank integrity management
- Load Safety – How to secure loads safely
- Slips, trips & falls cost two South West workers their lives
- Bottle company fined over worker plunge
- Construction firm fined after worker injures skull
- Slips, trips & falls caused 1,117 injuries to workers in the East Midlands
- Senior Management Team meeting agenda
- Didcot landlord fined for ignoring gas safety
- Firm fined £2400 after factory worker injured
- Nuclear – Materials Inspector post
- Consultation on revision of the Quarries Regulations 1999 Approved Code of Practice
- Consultation on the Legislative Reform Order to amend the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act
- Slips and trips website – rebranded
- Work at height, Access equipment Information Toolkit (WAIT)
- Shattered Lives Campaign – Phase 3 launched
- Myth of the month – February 2010
- Slips, trips & falls cost the UK around £800M per year
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